On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:05:19PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > > So, I thought to take the information about the running system from > the file /var/lib/dpkg/status, and just backing up those files > deviating from the packages default-configs (the full files, no > diffs). Additionally, /home gets backed up, perhaps some exclusions, IMHO, the debian policy permits a simplest option: just do a backup of /etc with following symlinks.